Budget Analyst ; BA​/FS

Budget Analyst 4 (BA4/FS)

The salary advertised reflects the 2% General Wage Increase for employees on 7/1/2026. This Budget Analyst 4 role at the Washington State Health Care Authority (HCA) is attractive for professionals seeking high-impact financial roles that combine technical expertise with public service, stability, and excellent benefits. All HCA employees will apply an equity lens to their work, which may include but is not limited to all analyses of core business and processes.

About the division:
This position is located within HCA's Financial Services Division (FSD), which in collaboration with other HCA divisions and a variety of external stakeholders and legislative partners, provides strategic financial expertise for Apple Health, Community Behavioral Health (CBH), PEBB and SEBB programs. In addition, FSD oversees the budget and compliance functions necessary to manage and monitor the single largest Washington State individual operating budget.

Functions include budget management, accounting, forecasting, professional and hospital rate setting, financial analysis, and payment/collection operations.

About the position:
This Budget Analyst 4 (BA4) reports to the Budget Unit Manager and has overall responsibility for the agency wide administrative budget and FTEs. The position performs expert-level budget and program planning analysis for HCA's administrative budget. This position is responsible for developing and monitoring the assigned administrative budget, agency budget requests, allotment processes, fiscal notes, and assuring that processes are completed within Office of Financial Management (OFM) guidelines and meet all budgetary requirements as directed by the Chief Financial Officer (CFO).

In addition, this position is charged with monitoring expenditures against allotment to identify any fiscal issues for HCA management, program managers and stakeholders, and assures the fiscal information reported to OFM, legislature staff, and the federal government is accurate. This position is responsible for sound fiscal projections to ensure adequate administrative funding for overall agency and divisions. This position is eligible to telework but is required to report on-site 1-2 business day a week and occasionally at other times to meet business need.

The default assigned work location of all Health Care Authority (HCA) positions – both on-site and telework eligible positions – is within the State of Washington. This position reports to Olympia, WA. Frequency of onsite work will vary based on business and operational needs. All agency employees are required to report on-site in Olympia on their first and last days of employment to pick up and return state-issued equipment, regardless of telework status or location.

Some of what you will do:

• Prepare and Manage Biennial and Supplemental Operating Budget for HCA.
• Develop and prepare Decision Packages for Maintenance Level and Performance Level packages.
• Assist and advise managers and executives in developing spending strategies.
• Monitor administrative expenditures to allotments for assigned divisions through the monthly financial analysis.
• Provide expert level financial consultation and sound fiscal projections for assigned programs/divisions to ensure adequate administrative funding.
• Provide budget research and review to Position Action Request (PAR).
• Provide budget research and review to Goods and Service Request (GSR).
• Provide budget research and review to Payroll account codes; update HRMS system as needed
• Work with accounting section to provide advice and research on account coding used for administrative expenditures.
• Fiscal notes coordination and preparation.

Required qualifications:

Qualifying candidates will meet one of the following criteria options:

• Master's degree in business, public administration, accounting, economics, or statistics.
• Three (3) years of professional experience in budgets, management, or program analysis.

• Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, accounting, economics, or statistics.
• Five (5) years of professional experience in budgets, management, or program analysis.

• Nine (9) years of…